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There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.

Baron de Montesquieu

Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
In every government there are three sorts of power: the legislative; the executive in respect to things dependent on the law of nations; and the executive in regard to matters that depend on the civil law.
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Government Law Three
The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing tests of the civilisation of any country.
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Country Criminals Tests
There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours Reading
In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.
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Body Diversity Movement
Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Cures Prejudice Trade
I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.
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Extremes Mankind Moderation
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Good Law May Very
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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Certain Foolishness Kind
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the Deity His laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws, the beasts their laws, man his laws.
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God Nature Science
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Law Relation
They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings.
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Blind Intelligent World
Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Talking Thinking
It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is lessneed of virtue than in a popular government, where the person entrusted with the execution of the laws is sensible of his being subject to their direction.
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Government Law Thinking
Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin!
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Empty Orignal Praise

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